# Composition area - telnet

Chuck Mize (nhcdm@ttacs1.ttu.edu)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:11:10 PST

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    Thanks to John at Biomoo and all the others that have made suggestions to my
    query about a composition area.

    John described the very problem that I am faced with.  I agree that a client
    would solve the problems associated with using telnet to get into our moo.
    The problem is that our educational moo serves several schools in a large
    area of West Texas.  Local phone service and computing services in these
    communities are such that we have not been able to establish the type of TCP
    connections that would allow teachers to use a client.  At present the best
    we have is for teachers to dial into a local server and use the limited
    telnet client on the server to attach to the moo.

    The best case would be to upgrade the local server to support a wider array
    of protocols such as slip or ppp.  Next thought would be to have teachers
    dial directly in to my servers.  In both cases, the cost is prohibitive,
    thus my question about a composition area that was a part of the moo code.
    I would like to improve the interface for teachers who only have access to
    telnet.  Biomoo's SMOC code looks like it may work well for this purpose.

    Any thoughts, suggestions and/or discussion would be appreciated.

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